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Windows 7: Anti-Virus found threats... how do I properly get rid of it safely?

Hi there. My AVG detected the following trojans. What is the best method to properly identify, remove, and completely eliminate them? I am confused by the threats being located on my services and can't pin point what entries to delete because it does not give a specific folder name.

Thanks for the quick reply Golden. The AVG interface quarantined the first two threats ( but does it remove??, could not find that option ). However, the 3rd threat in services was not removed because AVG identified the location of the threat as being in " Services " and can't delete it because it is a required part of Windows. I will soon run your online suggestions.

Ok. Looks like the problems were " supposedly " eliminated. I ran AVG again and it did not detect. What I did was force AVG to delete the 1st two thou it game me warnings. On the services, I went online and found out a solution. What I did was went into the CMD prompt and reset my services.

I tell you, how can people have time to sit around the computer with the intentions of messing with other people by developing spyware and viruses. Sick world.

Save as flush.bat to your desktop.
Vista and Windows 7... right click the .bat file and choose to run as Administrator. Your computer will reboot itself.

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* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
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* If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan.
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* When completed, a log will open in Notepad. Please save it to a convenient location. Copy and Paste that log into your next reply.

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